Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end egg processors had taken more than half the 1,400 freight cars off WFA's hands. When it gets rid of the rest, WFA says the crisis will be past. By then the seasonal egg slump will have begun, and WFA hopes the hens will observe...
Politicians and pundits had begun to speculate on a fascinating possibility: if the South's presidential electors want to be stubborn about Term IV, they can refuse to vote for the Party's presidential nominee. Precedent, rather than a Constitutional rule, is all that prompts them to string along with the people's choice. If they wish, they can return the 155-year-old Electoral College system to its original intent: to choose the best man for President, according to the electors' lights. Theoretically, the electors could disagree with the voters-even if their states...
Harvest Army. Already the wide north ward sweep of the harvest has begun in Texas and Oklahoma and is moving for ward like an army with its flanks spread wide. By late June it will reach Kansas, then thresh slowly up from the heartland of the U.S., until by September it spends itself on the windy prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta...
...first battle; the British 6th. They captured gun positions, pillboxes, road junctions, destroyed bridges. Some of them made contact later with ground troops. Some of them, the Germans claimed, were annihilated. The Old Ladies. It was at 5:35 a.m. that morning that the Allied armada had begun to pour its fire onto the French coast, where brightly colored German ack-ack was streaking the morning sky. In the fleet were old ladies like the Arkansas, belching with twelve 12-in. guns, the Texas and the Nevada, each with ten 14-inchers; the British Warspite, veteran of Jutland...
...push is on, Eisenhower will press it forward with full faith in his commanders and his troops, whom he considers the best any commander ever had. With them as his counsel and expert witnesses, he now stands before the bar of history. The progress of the just-begun campaign will decide his case...